Pet communicator' visits Clarkston Independence District Library

Mary Jean and Graham Baker, with their dogs Alex, left, and Mandy in their Orion Township home. The Bakers are taking their dogs to a pet psychic at the Clarkson Libray Tuesday night. Monday, October 7, 2013. The Oakland Press/TIM THOMPSON

ORION TOWNSHIP — She’s not a pet psychic — she prefers to be called an intuitive, a telepathic healer/medium or pet “communicator.”

Rev. Kathleena, who did not want to disclose her last name, will be at the Clarkston Independence District Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 6495 Clarkston Road sharing her insight all kinds
of pets.

But don’t bring Fido to the library. Local residents interested in learning about their pets can bring pictures to the event and Kathleena, 67, who lives in Macomb, will convey what they are thinking.

Mary Jean Baker, 66, of Orion Township plans to bring photos of her two big dogs, Alex and Mandy, who are both Dane/Labrador mix.

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“I don’t believe in psychics,” she said. “But it sounds like fun.”

Baker is a library volunteer and a member of Friends of Library, a nonprofit group that helps support the library. She rescued her dog, who was pregnant with her pup, from a pound about 6 years ago.

“I think she’s going to say, ‘We’re not in control, they are,” Baker surmised. “I can kind of understand that because of their size. I think she’s going to say that they try to get their way. ... We don’t talk dog, and they probably don’t talk people, although they do understand a few words. They understand what time dinner is.”

Originally from Toledo, Ohio, Kathleena said she first noticed her spiritual connection with people when she was 6 years old.

Her grandfather suffered a heart attack in front of her and, when she reached out to touch him and pray, he survived — and later survived 14 more heart attacks, she said.

“I felt like, at 6 years old, I was already being encouraged to go down the road, this path of prayer, of belief, of understanding that miracles happen,” said Kathleen, who also is a pastor at Center of Enlightenment Church in Ferndale.

She does not predict the future, she said. Instead, comparing her skills to an X-ray machine, she said she senses energy fields and can convey feelings — from both the living and dead.

“I get to the core issue of things that go on within the mind, the emotions, the spiritual fields, the physicality,” she said. “And how I do it with the animal kingdom is: They mirror us. They mirror our emotions. They mirror our frequency back to us. They mirror our misperceptions or missed choices. In other words, the way I see it, God put the beloved pet world on this planet to help us. All animals help us. They help us reflect back to us what it is we’re thinking, feeling, doing, reacting, misinterpreting.”

About 15 years ago, she began to notice her ability extended from people to animals when she witnessed a special connection with seagulls at the Detroit Zoo. Shortly after writing a spiritual verse about seagulls, she saw what seemed like hundreds flying overhead that day.

“I could tell that the animal kingdom really heard me when I talked to them,” she said.

Besides presentations at local libraries, Kathleena does speaking engagements, teaches classes and has personal clients.

There are 19 people signed up for the two-hour free event. For more information, go to www.indelib.org or call 248-625-2212.